Rock and rhapsodies : the music of Queen / Nick Braae.

Author
Braae, Nick [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
  • ©2021
Description
1 online resource (321 pages)

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Subject(s)
Series
Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]
Summary note
What, exactly, gave Queen's songs their magical and distinct musical identity? 'Rock and Rhapsodies' answers this question through a fascinating musicological study of the band's output.
Notes
Also issued in print: 2021.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Contents
  • cover
  • Rock and Rhapsodies
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Musical Examples
  • 1. Introduction
  • The Book
  • The Study of Queen
  • Issues of Style
  • 2. Queen's Idiolect: A Primer
  • Harmonic Structure and Gestures
  • Textural Foundations and the Sound-​Box
  • Arrangement and Performance Gestures
  • Sounds like Queen, and Other Conclusions
  • 3. Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry: Queen's Structural Archetypes
  • Introduction and Definitions
  • Conventional Forms
  • Variations on Conventional Forms
  • Episodic Songs
  • Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry
  • 4. Temporal Processes in Queen's Large-​Scale Songs
  • Time and Popular Song
  • Phrase and Intra-​Sectional Linearity
  • Sectional Temporality
  • Closure
  • Queen's Temporal Processes and Exceptions
  • 5. Brian May and Roger Taylor
  • Analysing the Voice
  • The Voices of Brian May and Roger Taylor
  • May, Taylor, and Rock Authenticity
  • 6. Freddie Mercury
  • The Voices
  • Structural Dynamics
  • Stylistic Incongruities, Queer and Camp Voices, and the 'Real' Freddie
  • Mercury, Rock Authenticity, and Interpretation
  • Coda
  • 7. Hard Rock, Glam Rock, and Progressive Rock in the 1970s
  • Commentary and Conceptual Considerations
  • Queen's 'Dominant Voice': The Hard Rock Connection
  • The Glam Rock Connection: Exaggeration, Irony, and Play
  • Progressive Rock and Interplay
  • 8. The Musical World(s) of Queen
  • A 'Unique' Sonic Fingerprint and Pastiche in the 1970s
  • Queen's Sonic Patterns and Stylistic Connections
  • The Musical World(s) of Queen
  • 9. A Day at the Races and the Gestural Unity of Queen
  • Queen in 1976 and the Ideal of Evolution
  • The Notion of Gestural Unity: Idiolect Revisited
  • A Day at the Races
  • The Gestural Unity of Queen
  • 10. Was It All Worth It? Queen in the 1980s
  • A Decade of Changing Fortunes.
  • From 'Save Me' to 'Staying Power'
  • The Rock Ballads Revisited
  • Hard Rock by Numbers
  • Was It All Worth It?
  • 11. Queen's Jubilee: The Late Style of Innuendo
  • Introduction
  • 'Innuendo'
  • 'The Show Must Go On'
  • A Late Style of Queen
  • 12. Legacy
  • Post-​1991
  • Replacing Freddie
  • 'No One But You'
  • We Will Rock You
  • The Influence of Queen
  • The End of the Story
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • 01_9780197526736_C01.pdf.
ISBN
  • 0-19-752677-2
  • 0-19-752676-4
OCLC
1242024210
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